Ian Bremmer
speaker
4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
Ian Bremmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Stable because they're open, the United States, Japan, the Nordics, stable because they're closed, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia.
Countries that are stable because they're closed want to stay closed because if they open up a little bit, the country can suddenly fall apart.
Countries that are stable because they're open are more stable than countries that are stable because they're closed.
And the reason I bring it up
is because it was not only something that was really, really like kind of promoted at the time as, wow, this is a breakthrough, it's also completely wrong today.
It no longer applies because the world has changed.
And the thing about the world that has changed is what you just got at, it's technology.
Technology back in 2006 was actually advantageous to more open societies.
It was the communications revolution.
It was bottom up.
It's what got us the Arab Spring.
It's what got you the colored revolutions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
People that suddenly were interconnected, that could learn more about their fellow citizens and what they were doing and organize, learn more about their governments and their predation and their corruption, even though the government didn't want them to necessarily know about that.
It undermined authoritarian systems.
and it strengthened liberal societies, open societies, right?
Then you move from that system to one where technology is top-down.
It's a surveillance-based system.
It's a data-based system.
It's algorithmic nudging of people by other people and even by bots.
It's attention-based, it's addictive, and it benefits closed societies.
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